27/IX. 02.

Dear Mama! It has been such a long time since I have had any word from you. There is still no news of how you reached Samara, how you have settled in. Probably Manyasha no longer lives at the old apartment, but I am writing to her address since I know no other, and I think the letter will be delivered to the new address as well. Where is Anyuta? What news is there from Mitya and Mark? How are you thinking of arranging things for the winter?

Are you well, my dear, has the journey not exhausted you too much?

Everything is as usual with us. Recently life has been somewhat more bustling. But now I have gotten more into a routine, and at the same time I am trying to spend more time in the library.

The weather has been remarkably fine: a reward for the miserable summer. And Nadya and I have already traveled and walked through quite a good deal of the surrounding countryside, and found some excellent places.

If you have the same weather there, you should take advantage of it somewhere in the bosom of nature, rather than in Samara itself, where at such a time there is, I expect, little that is pleasant to be found.

I embrace you warmly, my dear, and wish you health. Warmest greetings to all from me, from Nadya and E. V.

Your V. Ulyanov

in the journal

Sent from London to Samara

First published in 1929

*Proletarskaya Revolutsiya* No. 11

Printed from the manuscript